The Washington Post goes into eSports, joins the industry trend

The Washington Post is reported to have three dedicated job openings, one editor and two journalists, for a new specialized eSports and cybergames section. Previously online games and cyber tournaments were covered in “Sports” rubric.

“We don’t see any surprise here as eSports have a global audience of over 0.5bn people, according to the industry research,” DeStream CEO Anar Mekhtiev says, “and The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos who happens to own Twitch via Amazon, so the newspaper’s strategy department might have received some tips from its shareholder”, he adds.

The Washington Post is a very reputable newspaper with as much as 300,000 circulation of its daily issue and 465,000 papers distributed on Sundays. In 2013 Jeff Bezos acquired the outlet for $250mn ending eight decades of local ownership by the family of Washington Post Company Chairman and CEO Donald Graham.

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